Report: SWAT team kills barricaded suspect who shot Ill. cop

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - SWAT team officers in Illinois shot
and killed a man who had allegedly shot a police officer and then barricaded
himself in a home holding a woman hostage late Thursday, reports CBS Chicago.

Police say it all began around 7 p.m. Thursday when 41-year-old Eric
Anderson showed up at a home in Arlington Hills looking
for his 39-year-old estranged girlfriend. The girlfriend had an order of
protection against Anderson, and when he showed up with a gun, she called
police, reports the station.

Officer Michael McEvoy, a 23-year-veteran with the Arlington Hills Police
Dept., was dispatched to the scene and was allegedly shot in the neck by
Anderson when he arrived. Anderson then barricaded himself inside the home with
the woman.

Other responding officers were able to get McEvoy to safety and transported
to a hospital. He underwent surgery at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in
Park Ridge and was listed in stable condition Friday morning, according to the
station.

Arlington Heights Police Cmdr. Andrew Whowell said it wasn’t until two hours
later that Anderson exited the home and confronted police. Whowell said
Anderson “pointed a firearm at officers, at which time members of the Emergency
Services Team fired shots, striking him multiple times.”

Anderson was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights,
where he was pronounced dead at 11:02 p.m. Thursday, according to the Cook
County Medical Examiner’s office.

The woman who was taken hostage was not injured, but was taken to the
hospital as a precaution.

Police say Anderson had been arrested several times in the past for weapons
offenses.